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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by jazzyjackson »

frmersdog wrote: post #545
walletdrainer wrote: post #530

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. It depends on how much you earn. I don’t mind spending tens of thousands on Loro Piana cashmere because it’s really nice, but at my income level the price difference between that and Zara is pretty much immaterial. Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entr…

In this job market, in this political environment, with Luigi Mangione a Bonnie-and-Clyde-tier folk hero, the bit you quoted was perhaps a clue to the lack of wisdom in humblebragging that you spend a family's annual food budget on 5 pounds of spun sheep keratin. I imagine that I will be the bad guy for pointing this out. (Perhaps even to myself, considering that there's certainly utility in rich people yapping incau…

Luigi wouldn't have been famous if he offed a guy for wearing tailored pants and a rolex, he's famous because the CEO was a scapegoat of everything wrong with health insurance.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by OJFord »

tacker2000 wrote: post #197
AEVL wrote: post #61

Just some trivia (and an aside): The collaboration is with Issey Miyake. Steve Jobs black turtlenecks was Issey Miyakes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2022/08/10/heres-... (As an aside, I swear by pants from the Issey Miyake Homme Plissé collection. Since investing in some pairs about 10 years ago, I have hardly worn anything else—no other pants match their comfort. The iPhone Pocket is of course ridicul…

Sorry but 500 eur for polyester pants? Not even cotton?

You misunderstand, it's 20EUR for the trousers; 480 for the name printed on them. (And why you even want a name/logo printed on them...)

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ethbr1 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #338
kulahan wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$500 for something you might wear for a decade straight? A brand-new pair of Levis at JC Penny is gonna run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive. But also, quality has diminishing returns in basically every category. At the low end, it's extremely efficient to improve the quality of your product and charge a bit more. At the high end, you can't make any more inexpensive moves to set yourself apart,…

> $500 for something [...] run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive. To be honest, I did abandoned school as quickly as I could and my math skills aren't that of my peers, but 5x times as much is pretty "much more expensive" for most people out there, not sure how someone can say else with a straight face. $100 vs $500 would easily be a "Can I eat properly the entire month?" decision for a lot of t…

Wrong comparison.

The right comparison is "For people who can spend $500 on a pair of pants, what is the financial difference between $100 and $500?"

For most of that subpopulation, not much.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

crazygringo wrote: post #96
fxtentacle wrote: post #63

Awww... I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket. The 1st iPhone SE was the perfect form factor. But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow and grow like cancer ... In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

> they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry. I loved the iPhone SE and small phones generally, but at the same time I realize Apple's not failing at anything. They're giving the market the size people actually want. The smaller phones don't sell nearly as well. Most people prefer a bigger phone even if carrying it is less convenient. I've just accepted my phone will be bulky now, so I double down and at…

And yet, they sell, so people do want them.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by kjkjadksj »

n2d4 wrote: post #474
thesuitonym wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe there's room in the world for a device people want, even if it's not the device the majority want? I mean I know Apple is just a small startup company with only a $4 trillion valuation, but maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while.

If each iPhone model served only 3% of total iPhone users like the iPhone mini did, you'd end up with 33 iPhone models

I bet the iphone mini still outsold several macbook skus

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Post by DanHulton »

fxtentacle wrote: post #63

Awww... I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket. The 1st iPhone SE was the perfect form factor. But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow and grow like cancer ... In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

Absolutely this. I was so excited for a second that they were re-branding and re-launching the mini. My 13 is getting long in the teeth, and won't be supported for OS updates in a few more years.

Instead it's an ugly, phone-only purse.

Bleh.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by silisili »

AEVL wrote: post #61

Just some trivia (and an aside): The collaboration is with Issey Miyake. Steve Jobs black turtlenecks was Issey Miyakes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2022/08/10/heres-... (As an aside, I swear by pants from the Issey Miyake Homme Plissé collection. Since investing in some pairs about 10 years ago, I have hardly worn anything else—no other pants match their comfort. The iPhone Pocket is of course ridicul…

I always liked this story because they seemed to connect person to person.

Sadly, Jobs died in 2011, and Miyake in 2022.

I guess you could call this a small homage, but it feels different in that their founders are gone and it's just corp to corp dealings now.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by jazzyjackson »

crazygringo wrote: post #110

It's kind of hilarious to me when the tech world collides with the high-end fashion world. On the one hand, I get how absurd this seems from a tech perspective. On the other hand, dropping a couple hundred dollars on a fashion item that will be trendy for a season among a certain group... it's no different from any other high-end fashion accessory. It's just that the two worlds so rarely overlap.

Compare with this Prada smartphone bag for 1470USD I don't know how many they sell every year but there's an audience.

https://www.prada.com/us/en/p/prada-speedrock-re-nylon-and-l...

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